karz10
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You know, the only thing better than being president for someone interested in power might be a life long seat the the Supreme Court, and Clinton is an attorney w/ a lot of connections, I've always wondered if she would try to parlay her political clout into a seat on the bench, especially if it was a Dem president and Senate at the time...
Don't know when another seat comes up, and Clinton may never get on it, but I really wanted to bring up the point that the Heller decision was close, and it's hard for me to believe that 4 of our justices disagreed w/ the constitution and popular opinion on this topic.
If you look at the current justices on wiki (scroll down) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
...you'll see many of them are appointed by republicans, and we don't have a straight conservative showing, even of those appointed by rep.
I'm not going to get into a political debate here, but I'm just reminding people that as it concerns firearms, and the laws surrounding them, especially in light of this recent decision, that we may want to consider this decision and other future fights to come, when it comes time to vote this November.
Make sure you're ok w/ trying to at least vote in the best of the two choices in how it may affect laws and the appointment of any future justices, should the need come up...
In case you're interested which judges voted which way, and who appointed them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
Down the right hand side, you see the list of judges majority and dissenting.
Dissenting included Stevens (Ford), Souter (GHW Bush) Breyer (Clinton) , Ginsburg (Clinton)
Majority included Scalia (Reagan), Roberts (GW Bush), Kennedy (Reagan), Thomas (GHW Bush), Alito (GW Bush).
So like him or not, if it weren't for GW appointing Roberts and Alito, this may not have went our way. If Gore had got in and rolled another term, or if Kerry had gotten elected, who knows who they would have appointed when those seats came up.
My .02
Karz
Don't know when another seat comes up, and Clinton may never get on it, but I really wanted to bring up the point that the Heller decision was close, and it's hard for me to believe that 4 of our justices disagreed w/ the constitution and popular opinion on this topic.
If you look at the current justices on wiki (scroll down) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
...you'll see many of them are appointed by republicans, and we don't have a straight conservative showing, even of those appointed by rep.
I'm not going to get into a political debate here, but I'm just reminding people that as it concerns firearms, and the laws surrounding them, especially in light of this recent decision, that we may want to consider this decision and other future fights to come, when it comes time to vote this November.
Make sure you're ok w/ trying to at least vote in the best of the two choices in how it may affect laws and the appointment of any future justices, should the need come up...
In case you're interested which judges voted which way, and who appointed them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
Down the right hand side, you see the list of judges majority and dissenting.
Dissenting included Stevens (Ford), Souter (GHW Bush) Breyer (Clinton) , Ginsburg (Clinton)
Majority included Scalia (Reagan), Roberts (GW Bush), Kennedy (Reagan), Thomas (GHW Bush), Alito (GW Bush).
So like him or not, if it weren't for GW appointing Roberts and Alito, this may not have went our way. If Gore had got in and rolled another term, or if Kerry had gotten elected, who knows who they would have appointed when those seats came up.
My .02
Karz